Lao Central Airlines (LF, Vientiane) has revised its planned resumption of services date from mid year, to year-end airline chairman and chairman of its parent firm, Phongsavanh Group, Prof. Od Phongsavanh, has said. The relaunch will be timed to coincide with Laos' entry into the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) common market.

Aer Lingus (EI, Dublin Int'l) has again come out in support of a renewed takeover bid by the International Airlines Group, parent to British Airways, Vueling Airlines, and Iberia. On Friday, the Irish carrier's board said that as the IAG had provided it with further clarification on its plans for the Irish carrier, it was now recommending the IAG's revised EUR1.36 billion (USD1.54 billion) proposal as being 'in the best interests of Aer Lingus’ shareholders.'

Alitalia (AZ, Rome Fiumicino) shareholder, Poste Italiane, has been cleared of breaching European state-aid rules regarding its participation in a EUR500 million rescue package engineered by the Italian government in 2013.

In its ruling, the European Commission said the Italian state-run postal service's EUR75 million investment in Alitalia was done under terms and conditions comparable to those of two private operators (a so-called pari passu transaction).

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